That long list makes the kind of pricey $45 ticket seem not so bad, right?

WHAT: FOOD – Ciao Chocolate Fest

When: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Where: Multiple locations

Cost: $7 per treat

Every few months or so Ciao puts on these really great culinary events in the city – and this month they’ve put together Chocolate Fest.

The event has 14 restaurants offer some sort of chocolatey treat for $7.

Chew on Waterloo Street is offering something called a Chocolate Trio, which has a lavender milk chocolate cremeux (that’s basically fancy pudding, if you’re wondering), a white chocolate brulée and a dark chocolate sorbet with a cherry on top.

Over at Prairie 360, they’re offering a few choices including a Triple Chocolate Cheesecake which has crushed Oreos under a layer of dark chocolate ganache (kind of like half-fudge half-icing), topped with milk chocolate cheesecake and white chocolate curls. White chocolate curls!

Dillinger Escape Plan is headlining an early show at the West End Cultural Centre Sunday night with a whole bunch of other California hard-core crews.

Greg Puciato of The Dillinger Escape Plan performs in 2013 in Los Angeles. The band will be in Winnipeg this weekend. (Chris Pizzello/The Associated Press)

It's definitely not an event I'd normally think of going to — I'm a folk music person and not so much a metal/punk person — but I do know a lot of people in this city who love metal and are pretty excited for these guys to come to town.

The Internet says Dillinger Escape Plan is a mathcore band, which apparently has something to do with both metal and punk and lots of other complicated things.

A few of my favourite people said they're a great metal band, so if you're remotely into either genre, it could be a rad show.